"I have seen editions of The Histories with a sculpted portrait on Penguin paperback edition of 1954 (revised in 1972 and reprinted inġ985), and to a Greek sculpture of a seated philosopher in the Louvre,Īlmasy self-reflectively observes of the often unreliable Herodotus, Pasted in a map or news clipping or used a blank space to sketch Supposed lies," he sometimes "brought out his glue pot and Updating what he calls "his guidebook, ancient and modern, of His "thick-leaved sea-book of maps and texts" (97-98). In this valuable commonplace book he's also put "otherįragments -maps, diary entries, writings in many languages, paragraphsĬut out of other books" (96). Observations-so they are all cradled within the text of Herodotus" "cutting and gluing in pages from other books or writing in his own The hero,Ĭount Laszlo de Almasy, has added to his 1890 edition of the book by Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (NY: Knopf, 1992). There are nearly twenty references to Herodotus' Histories in
Hamlet, as in Herodotus, the wife and her lover kill her royal husband In Aeschylus' Agamemnon and in Shakespeare's He sendsīathsheba's husband to war and, when he is killed in battle, Watches Bathsheba bathing, falls in love and sleeps with her. When she refuses, falsely accuse her of fornication. Lecherous elders spy on the naked Susannah, demand sex with her and, In Susannah and the Elders (in the Apocrypha) the Wife, combines two eternal literary themes: illicit voyeurism and Monomaniacal husband who proudly but tragically shows off his beautiful Histories (5th century B.C.), which describes a domineering and The story of King Candaules of Lydia in Book I:8 of Herodotus' APA style: Herodotus and The English Patient.Herodotus and The English Patient." Retrieved from
2011 Notes on Contemporary Literature 05 Jun. MLA style: "Herodotus and The English Patient." The Free Library.
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